LPP PETITION DRIVE

They all

axe the sales tax

sign to.

Coalition Premier “‘Boss” Johnson has announced that what this

province needs is more H. R. MacMillans.

But if it comes to a

question of the people paying more and still morg sales tax to help
make more H. R. MacMillans (through relieving such multimillionaires

of taxation they should rightfully

be paying) then LPP provincial

organizer Maurice Rush can suppy Johnson with plenty of evidence to
show that the majority of the people don’t agree with him.

“Almost everybody you ask signs
Our petition immediately,” says
Rush, who: is chairing the LPP
“Repeal the Sales Tax” committee.
The committee is circulating a
province-wide petition asking the
government to get rid of the sales
tax at the coming session.

“Last Saturday LPP housewives
stood in front’ of Safeway and
other stores and filled sheet after
sheet with signatures.

“We have had to get a third
reprinting of the petition form
to meet the tremendous demand.

CSU firm for

hecemeesintenl

We are certain to more than
achieve our objective of 20,000
signatures. :

“The LPP is scheduling public
meetings throughout the province
to mobilize action against this
universally-detested measure.

“Kitsilano LPP club is sponsor-
ing Bert Whyte in a 5-minute
‘Axe the Tax’ broadcast over
CKMO Wednesday, February 9,
at 6.55 p.m.

“Victory Square Club is sponsor-
ing Al Parkin in a similar broad-
cast at the same time and on the
same station Friday, February 11.

“Monday, January 31, will see
40 LPP clubs in Vancouver and
many in other localities ringing

aa thousands of doorbells in a peti-
rin a tion blitz.

“Our experience has been that

PRY : i ,.| @Mdividuals who refuse to sign

aa ade asa — that’s} the petition because they a

ek hee. s Me oe , swallowed the government’s red-

: : igeer" | baiting propaganda about the LPP

Smith, local business agent of the
Canadian Seamen's Union, charac-
terized deepsea ship operators’ pro-
posals as outlined in conciliation
hearings now proceeding at Mon-
treal.
“They want to cut mess-boys’ |
pay $50 a month.
“They want to cut bosuns’ pay |
$20 a month.
“They want to keel-haul the un- |
ion by wiping out the hiring hall. |
“And they want to wipe out |
money drawers at sea so that a}
man will be broke in every port |
he hits till he gets home. |
’ “Tf anybody thinks. Canadian |
seamen will give up the hiring hall |
and take cuts in wages and condi- |
tions they should get their head
examined. |
“Unless the companies get down |
to serious collective bargaining |
on the basis of our demand for a
_15 percent pay increase for all
ratings, it looks as if they will
have to find this out the hard
way.”

are few and far between. This
Shows that bold people’s action
can beat back old line party raids
on our living standards,”

The campaign to repeal the sales

| tax is meeting big support among
people on low fixed incomes, such

as pensionergy, people living on

| Small savings and those on social
| assistance.

Secretary Bob Daniels of the
B.C. District Union of Disabled
and Handicapped persons has cas-
tigated the tax as “vicious” and
points out the sharp burden it im-
poses on people who have to live
on social assistance grants of $35
monthly (single), $48 married and
$5 per child.

The Civic Reform Committee ‘is
| sponsoring its mayoralty candidate
| Mrs. Effie Jones in a broadcast
|to outline stand of that body
'against the sales

|
| Monday, February 7, 8 p.m,

Cowichan labor bucks

_ Local residents who read in
district

—. CCF-IWA-company link

, —LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.
the Pacific Tribune that the TWA

convention endorsed Canadian Congress of Labor political

action policy are wondering just what that policy means.

The policy is said to mean
political arm” but in Lake Cowich-
an at least it appears to mean en-
dorsation of the Chamber of Com-
merce as well. Here are the facts
that lead to this conclusion:

In the recent Lake Cowichan
municipal elections, Chamber of
Commerce candidate Walter Tiesu
was elected with full backing
from the CCF and IWA.

In face of this combination which

~ rolled up 198 votes, labor candi-

date Andy Atchison made a good
showing with 185 votes. :

Scrutineering, for the Chamber
of Commerce were Mrs. Eva Nich-

Swing against war
pact at CCF meet

A week-end discussion at Boag
House swung against the Atlantic
war pact after Frank McKenzie
and Cliff Greer argued in favor of
it and Colin Cameron argued
against it.

Cameron warned, “We are being
asked to put the borders: of the
U.S. in western and eastern Eu-
rope.”

“‘endorsation of the CCF as labor’s

ol and Mrs. Kanen Anderson
(president and vice-president of the
IWA auxiliary). Scrutineering for
the labor candidate were Mrs.
Wynne Lang, Mrs. Jean Carlson,
Mrs. Edna Thomas (all from’ the
WIUC auxiliary) and Harry Ryt-
tersgaard of the carpenters’ union.

Atchison proposed a program to
continue work on extension of
street lighting, sidewalks, child-
ren’s playgrounds and improve-
ments to village roads.

Tiesu claimed to be non-political
and his campaigners concentrated
on red-baiting instead of a pro-
gram.

Atchison was threatened with
discrimination from several sour-
ces. One company representative
threatened loss of jobs for work-
ers who voted for Atchison.

While labor campaigners met in
Unity Hall to plan to unite labor

for victory in 1949, the CCF, TWA
and Chamber of Commerce repre-
sentatives were drinking, togteher
to celebrate their victory of 1948.

As in Nanaimo, where the IWA
supported the Muir gang, people
here have their suspicions as to
just whose victory the latter com-
bination was celebrating.

tax, CKMO,|
ja general election which, it is gen-

Fascist editor n

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in Yellowknife CCF

One package’ caneneinent’

Rep. Jehn Lesinski (Dem, Mich.), chairman of the House labor
; committee (center) told reporters after a White House conference

that President Truman

supports a “one package” proposal

to

repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and amend the Wagner Act in a
single measure. Both AFI and CIO leaders oppose this approach.

Warlike throne speech

contradiction

to promises

—OTTAWA

From a throne speech couched in contradictory terms of “greater
social security’? and intensified war preparations MP’s drew the con-
clusicn that the session of parliament which opened on Tuesday this
week will be their last before they return to face their constituents—as

some of them have not dnne since
they were elected nearly four years
ago.

The speech contained every in-
dication that the Liberal govern-
ment-of Premier Louis St. Lau-
rent is striving to cloak its war
policies—the North Atlantic pact,
unification and expansion of the
armed forces — with promises of
tax reduction and broadening of
Family Allowances in readiness for

erally predicted, will be held this
June.
To those who entertained hope

that the government might give
positive leadership in relieving

the tension of international. rela-

tions the speech was bitterly dis-
appointing. In face of the facts,
propaganda statements that “the
nations of Western Europe are
making progress towards recov-
ery’ and diatribes about “the dis-
ruptive activities of international
Communism.” merely underlined
the government’s determination to
pursue its U.S.-charted course
heedless of the consequences to
world peace.

Parliament will be given the op-
portunity to debate the North At-

lantic pact, but all the indications
are that it will be little more than
a formality. Liberal, Conservative,
CCF and Socia’ Credit parties have
all placed themselves on record
as supporting this war alliance
directed against an ever-increas-
ing section of the world, and all
maintain the elaborate pretense
that they are acting in the inter-
ests of peace.

Unless the popular organiza-
.tions of the people, trade unions,
women’s and youth groups, vet-
erans’ and cooperative organiza-
tions, succeed by their pressure
in forcing at least a handful of
MP’s to express their viewpoint,
this session of parliament may
well commit Canada to partici-
pation in a future war without
the doubts, the protests and the
outright opposition of millions of
Canadians being heard in the
House that is supposed to repre-
sent them.

Similarly, the throne speech, for
all its high-flown, language, offers
scant promise to the people that
any effective measures will be
taken to preserve “the high stand-
ard of living, social justicé and in-
dividual freedom’ from the govern-
ment - facilitated attacks of big
business. ke

pacts and tle UN charter, They are against high profits and de-
clining profits and farm income, They want civil rights and more

democracy.

They want a Canadian Bill of Rights.

They want

social security — health insurance, adequate pensions, housing,
lower income taxes on the workers and farmer, an emd to the sales
tax, the return of the excess profits tax, a decent labor code, in-
creased and extended unemployment insurance benefit, a 40-hour
week, security of employment, a floor under farm prices. But,

what can you do about it?

@® Make your views known to your MP.

Write him at Ottawa

and demand: that parliament listen to. the voice of the people,

: for peace, security and democracy.
‘@ Ask your union, farm, pensioner, veteran or other organization
* to tell the MP’s that the needs of the people come before the

‘greedy ambitions of the profiteers. 4
® Tell the MP’s that you oppose rearmament,

atomic warfare

and peacetime conscription; that Canadian national security
and integrity can be secured by a truly Canadian people’s
policy, free from Wall St. domination, which will rebuild the
unity of the UN and work for peace and world disarmament.

\ \
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 28, 1949 — PAGE 12

—YELLOWKNIFE, NWT

A former leader of the Can-
adian “Union of Fascists has now
emerged as a leading. figure in
the newly formed Yellowknife
CCF club and is even being
mentioned as a_ possible CCF
choice to contest Yukon constitu-
ency in the coming federal elec-
tion.

. He is Charles B. Crate, one-
time editor of the Thunderbolt,
monthly organ of the Canadian
Union of Fascists which was pub-
lished in Toronto until the out-
break of war forced its discon-
tinuance. ; :

As editor of the stridently pro-

Nazi Thunderbolt, Crate was close-
ly linked with another notorious
fascist, John Ross Taylor, who
conducted a_ provocative cam-
paign in Toronto-St. Andrew rid-
ing during the 1937 Ontario provin-
cial election advocating that all
Jews be shipped to Madagascar.
Significantly, the same cry was
raised by Sir Oswald Mosley’s Bri-
tish Union of Fascists, with which
the Canadian organization had
ties, and by Adrien Arcand, lead-
er of the National Unity Party
who was interned for five years.

During the war Crate worked on

the Alaska Highway, where his!
presence in a military zone was
publicly questioned by the Can-
adian Tribune, and later he moved
to Yellowknife.

Last September, following the
federal redistribution of seats
by whick the western half of
Mackenzie District was added
to the Yukon _ constituency,
Harold Witch, CCF leader in the
B.C. legislature, made a, tour of
the Yellowknife area, and Crate
was his chairman at a_ public
meeting held in Yellowknife!
This month, when the Yellow-

knife CCF club organized during
Winch’s visit held its first annual
election of officers, Crate was
named publicity chairman and
delegated to form a special com-
mittee to draw up a CCF policy
for Mackenzie District.

HONOR ROLL

January’s list of Pacific Trib-
une sub-getters is growing but
isn’t big enough yet, especially
out of town. How about it
Victoria, upper Island, Fraser
Valley, Okanagan, Kootenays and
points north? It takes three
“subs to make the Honor Roll.
Top sub-getter for January gets
a book prize. Sit down and
maké a little list, then go out
and sell those subs. Note the
contest between shingle-weaver
Pritchett, logger Lindberg, and
logger’s wife Edna Brown. Re-
member—January ends Monday
night.
VANCOUVER:

Harold Pritchett (Forest -

ETOMUCUS) is fait ines as 2)
Art Lindberg (Victory Square) 5
Roy Lavrynuk (East End

No. , 2)
Percy Budd (Commercial Dr.) 4
Ann Belenkaya (Kitsilano) .. 3
Olive Wilkinson (Norquay) .. 3
PROVINCE
Edna Brown (Lake Cowichan) 8
C. Procurier (Port Alberni) .. 3

Brazil gets evidence

es j
on our: way of life
—RIO DE JANEIRO
Recently the workers of the Can-
adian - ‘controlled Light Corpora-
tion which supplies electric power
here, demanded a wage increase.
The Brazilian Labor Ministry
studied the demands and recom-
mended slight wage hikes along
with an increase in rates, showing
that the workers’ contentions were
justified. At the same time the

ted a brief to the courts calling for

Unity Committee,

Brazilian security police submit-

outlawing of the Light Workers’

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